In a comment thread on National Review, a reader asked me "Which presidents didn't have 'enthusiasm for getting things done?'"
This was my response. I figured I better preserve it before I lost track of it:
Calvin Coolidge.
“It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.”
“Don't you know that four fifths of all our troubles in this life would disappear if we would just sit down and keep still?”
"They criticize me for harping on the obvious; if all the folks in the United States would do the few simple things they know they ought to do, most of our big problems would take care of themselves."
"If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you."
“The people cannot look to legislation generally for success. Industry, thrift, character, are not conferred by act or resolve. Government cannot relieve from toil. It can provide no substitute for the rewards of service. It can, of course, care for the defective and recognize distinguished merit. The normal must care for themselves. Self-government means self-support.”
“I want the people of America to be able to work less for the government and more for themselves. I want them to have the rewards of their own industry. This is the chief meaning of freedom. Until we can reestablish a condition under which the earnings of the people can be kept by the people, we are bound to suffer a very severe and distinct curtailment of our liberty.”
This was my response. I figured I better preserve it before I lost track of it:
Calvin Coolidge.
“It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.”
“Don't you know that four fifths of all our troubles in this life would disappear if we would just sit down and keep still?”
"They criticize me for harping on the obvious; if all the folks in the United States would do the few simple things they know they ought to do, most of our big problems would take care of themselves."
"If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you."
“The people cannot look to legislation generally for success. Industry, thrift, character, are not conferred by act or resolve. Government cannot relieve from toil. It can provide no substitute for the rewards of service. It can, of course, care for the defective and recognize distinguished merit. The normal must care for themselves. Self-government means self-support.”
“I want the people of America to be able to work less for the government and more for themselves. I want them to have the rewards of their own industry. This is the chief meaning of freedom. Until we can reestablish a condition under which the earnings of the people can be kept by the people, we are bound to suffer a very severe and distinct curtailment of our liberty.”
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